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THE AUNTIE PHO SIZZLE REEL 🍜🔥⛓️‍💥🍳🥵

The Auntie Pho Comedy Hour
an anti-f@$cist late night talk show

June 4-7, 2026 at Z Below in San Francisco, CA

written & performed by
@phillywongsteak
@tirumario
@aprilpascua
@alvinadrianlee
@aptly_engineerd
@snarq

feat. House Band @skiptheneedle
@vrandle
@kofybrown
@katie_cash_music

special guests
@ian.buddy
@kaikaibee_
@kochinarude
@lunchboxx___

tech
@tenuous_bandersnatch
@anthonyfrederickaranda

mutual aid leads
@drag_on_king
@sam.g.lh

supported by
@theatrebayareasf CA$H Grant
Art & Mayhem Collective
@tempestedbird
@zspacesf
and viewers like you

video/editing
@guyriggs
Phil Wong

song
“We Ain’t Never Goin Back” by Skip the Needle

conceived, produced, & directed by Phil Wong

Proshot coming soon 👀 🎥 🍿 taken in Z Below by @phillywongsteak

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3 months ago

THE AUNTIE PHO MANIPHESTO 🍜🔥⛓️‍💥📝

1.) 💨Fart at F@$cism — The rigidity and audacity of f@$cists can and must be combatted with whimsy. Weaponize absurdity. Be ungovernable in your playfulness.

2.) 🪧Comedy as Protest — Speaking truth to power is an inherent aspect of comedy. Meet oppression with ridicule. Reject manufactured fear with laughter. Expose the truth.

3.) 🍽️Set a Big Table — Our isolation starves us and feeds them. Gather in person to create art, make food, and share resources. Invite opposition and discover new perspectives. Find out how connected our struggles truly are.

4.) 📢Make Organizing Easy — You’re braver than you think. Engage at the level you’re able. Talk to your neighbors. Protect the vulnerable. Volunteer, boycott, and protest. Solidarity is a muscle that must be nurtured and strengthened.

THE AUNTIE PHO COMEDY HOUR
One weekend only
June 4-7, 7:30pm at Z Below @zspacesf
@auntiephocomedy by @phillywongsteak

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5 months ago

❤️‍🩹 Healing Update

It’s been a little over a month into herniated disc adventures and I’m happy to report that I’m significantly more upright and moving around! I graduated from a walker to a four-legged cane to this pimpin Biggie cane.

I’m surprising myself with how much more mobility I gain every day. The pain and discomfort are still constant, but they’ve started to become background noise as opposed to my life’s soundtrack. I am in endless awe of the body’s ability to heal itself.

Catching COVID on top of everything threw me into few dark weeks of the soul. My inability to find a comfortable resting position kept me from doing creative things that regulate me like cooking, playing the piano, and even reading.

Opiods were making my brain mushy and steroids were making me anxious and stressed. I spent my restless isolation voice-to-text-ing a bunch of lowkey highkey depressing journal entries into my notes app and had myself a little emo boi summer’s end.

Now that I’m through those woods and working on weaning off some of the harder meds, my nervous system is regulating and I’m finally starting to think clearly.

Spending a lot less time at the pharmacy and a lot more at the dispensary and the natural food and vitamin store like a true denizen of Ashland.

When the brain fog lifted I was able to get back into my daily disciplines including music, writing, and exercise. I try to consistenly go on progressively longer walks.

I’ve really been on my Uncle Iroh shit with my PT.
Haven’t skipped a single day and I’m never going a morning without mobility and core strengthening ever again.

I’m learning the guitar for my next show! For a while it was my only musical outlet other than singing cuz
I could play it lying down.

As a pianoman I’ve always been kinda intimidated by strings I can see, but I was pleasantly surprised by how intuitive it’s been. I’m doing everything I can to make sure my chops and my bod are ready to rock for my holiday season contract. More on that soon.

A couple weeks ago when Dolly and Tim passed, I was finally able to sit without significant discomfort and I played the piano for the first time, weeping my way through I Will Alwa taken in Ashland, Oregon by @phillywongsteak

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a month ago

A LIL HEALTH UPDATE ❤️‍🩹

Just cuz I’ve mostly been talking about this in my stories and I’m getting a little overwhelmed by people asking, I’m gonna grid it up so folks are in the loop.

I herniated my L5/S1 lumbar disc. I strangely don’t feel it in my spine but I have major sciatic nerve pain in my entire left leg from my hip to my heel. I currently cannot walk without a walker or cane and every movement feels like my leg being stabbed everywhere constantly from every direction. I’m on a tapered dose of steroids, NSAIDs, and some really intense painkillers which I’m trying to wean off of rn cuz I’m not tryna get addicted to oxys while I’m out here.

Not entirely sure how the injury happened. I had been going a little harder at the gym with weights, I just finished a big move of a lot of heavy stuff from Bay to Ashland, I had been occasionally exerting myself for work but I can’t pinpoint the exact moment it occurred, which is frustrating. All I know is I started to feel what I thought was muscle soreness or lactic acid buildup around the beginning of August and every time I tried to stretch it out it seemed to get worse. I woke up one day and I couldn’t stand, sit, lie down, or move without screaming. I went to the ER and they initially discharged me with painkillers but the next day it came back with a vengeance so an ambulance had to take me back which is when I finally got the imaging and the steroid treatment.

I also somehow managed to catch COVID in the last few days. Every time I sneeze or cough it feels like my whole body is on fire. I’m limited by the amount of meds I can take to manage my COVID symptoms cuz of the cocktail of drugs already taking, so I’m mostly trying to move thru the pain with breathing, meditation, and mindfulness.

Resting too long is unfortunately not advised for my condition as it can cause my muscles to seize up, but I haven’t been able to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time anyways so whenever the pain wakes me up I try to get some blood flowing to my leg and back with light movement. During the day I’ve been trying to walk around and move as much as possible until I can’t anymore.

(Cont. in comments) by @phillywongsteak

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2 months ago

Sunday night! Complete your pride weekend with CROONERS Loves Gaily; songs about love and queerness.

This Sunday, June 28th at 7 and 9pm at Stookey's Blue Room! Grab your tickets at the link in our bio.

Hosted by @chestervanderbox
With @seanowensplaywright
And guest stars @phillywongsteak and @wileywhy
Accompanied by @brendangetzell
Mixology by @iamnotmk_
Located at @stookeysclubmoderne taken in Stookey's Club Moderne by @phillywongsteak

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4 months ago

We're delighted to have the genius and talent of Phil Wong back to CROONERS this Sunday! From Suffragette to Vampire, you know Phil will bring us something awesome.

Grab your tickets now at the link in our bio for the 7pm or 9pm show. Scroll>>> for a discount code for 9pm! See you at Stookey's Blue Room after the Pride parade!

First photo by @verokherian
Photos by @kayleighshawnphoto taken in Stookey's Club Moderne by @phillywongsteak

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4 months ago

Happy Pride to all our Fancypants followers! This season is bursting with fantastic art and entertainment, and we hope you're out supporting all your favorite queer and trans performers!

As it happens, Pride is falling on the 4th Sunday of June, which means that Chester and the gang will be hosting a very special CROONERS at Stuckey's Blue Room on Sunday June 28th at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.

“CROONERS Loves Gaily” is an unabashed celebration of queer love just steps away from the city's central Pride Celebration. Special guests Phil Wong, Tanya Anguita, and Wiley Naman Strasser are assembling a ‘pan’opoly of piquant and powerful pleasers, designed to delight and disarm.

Our celebrity bartender MK has a very special Creation concocted for Pride season the lavender marriage, a libation as lilting as it is liberal! Ethereal and Floral, but with a cunning kick - - much like CROONERS itself! And of course, our master of Melody, Brendan Getzell will be on the keys, and our dashing doorman Nathaniel Bice will be waiting to greet you! Head up the hill from Civic Center to Bush and Taylor, and we'll see you on Pride night for some much-needed cooldown and aftercare. If you choose only one way to celebrate Pride this year, we hope it will be with us! taken in Stookey's Club Moderne by @phillywongsteak

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4 months ago

🍜AUNTIE PHO AUDIENCE VISION 3-D 👓🌀 (Part 1)

feat. 📸
@indieemmajones
@renee.rogoff
@chuckleshots
@teslaxversace

Special Guest Star: The Auntie Pho Group Chat

Keep your eye on @auntiephocomedy for updates on what’s next for the Bay’s anti-f@$cist late night talk show! 👀🍜🔥⛓️‍💥🛋️🌉🎙️ taken in Z Below by @phillywongsteak

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4 months ago

🍜❤️‍🔥⛓️‍💥THE AUNTIE PHO COMEDY HOUR
an anti-f@$cist late night talk show (pt. 2)
June 4-7, 2026 at Z Below (@zspacesf)

written & performed by
@phillywongsteak
@tirumario
@aptly_engineerd
@alvinadrianlee
@aprilpascua
@snarq

feat. House Band @skiptheneedle
@vrandle
@katie_cash_music
@kofybrown

stage manager
@tenuous_bandersnatch

house tech
@anthonyfrederickaranda

conceived, produced, directed, & hosted by Phil Wong

supported by a @theatrebayareasf CA$H Grant 💰🎭

📸: @kayleighshawnphoto taken in Z Below by @phillywongsteak

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4 months ago

🍜❤️‍🔥⛓️‍💥THE AUNTIE PHO COMEDY HOUR
an anti-f@$cist late night talk show (pt. 1)
June 4-7, 2026 at Z Below (@zspacesf)

written & performed by
@phillywongsteak
@tirumario
@aptly_engineerd
@alvinadrianlee
@aprilpascua
@snarq

feat. House Band @skiptheneedle
@vrandle
@katie_cash_music
@kofybrown

stage manager
@tenuous_bandersnatch

house tech
@anthonyfrederickaranda

conceived, produced, & hosted by Phil Wong

supported by a @theatrebayareasf CA$H Grant 💰🎭

📸: @kayleighshawnphoto taken in Z Below by @phillywongsteak

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4 months ago

HAPPY OPENING, COMRADES! 🍜🔥⛓️‍💥

The Auntie Pho Comedy Hour, the Bay’s gleefully anti-f@$cist talk show, begins its SOLD OUT RUN 7:30pm tonight at Z Below. Congrats to the Auntie Pho Collective and all our special guests for making this a momentous community event.

If you’re still trying to get a ticket, do not DM us and do not call the Z Space Box Office! We are currently overwhelmed processing a lot of requests and exchanges. We recommend coming to Z Below an hour before showtime (6:30pm) to get on the day of waitlist, and we will admit people based on time of arrival and ticket availability. We cannot guarantee the whole waitlist will get in, but the earlier you arrive, the better your chances are! All waitlist tickets are FREE. If you wish to donate anything to Auntie Pho, there will be QR codes for you to do so.

If you have a confirmed ticket, make sure to get to the theater on time! The box office will start releasing empty seats to the waitlist 15 minutes after curtain (~7:45pm)

OUR SPECIAL GUESTS:

Thursday, June 4th — IAN BUDDY (@ian.buddy) of @wheredowegoberkeley

Friday, June 5th — KAIKAI BEE MICHAELS (@kaikaibee_) of @bayareasuperheroes

Saturday, June 6th — KOCHINA RUDE (@kochinarude) “The Narcan Queen”

Sunday, June 7th — LBXX (@lunchboxx___) of @sfblackpride & @projectsavethegworls

See you at Auntie Pho HQ.
We are all Auntie Pho… and you can be too!
🍜🔥⛓️‍💥 @auntiephocomedy

📸: @kayleighshawnphoto
🖼️: @tasialabastro taken in Z Below by @phillywongsteak

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